Ronald Reagan's Unforgettable Presidency Shaping America's Destiny

These shaky economic times helped Reagan get elected and once in office, he made his top priority fixing the economic crisis the U.S. faced. President Reagan has been in office less than three weeks. A mood of economic anxiety hangs over the nation. Millions of Americans are out of work, interest ... Between 1984 and 2016, the Republicans were the party of Reagan, with his supporters claiming that he had reversed US economic decline, restored ... GWEN IFILL: Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever to serve as president, the longest-living ex-president, and the first American president to ... President Reagan considered regulatory relief, in which the Department of Labor was destined to play a major part, one of the cornerstones of the Economic ... One was an avid capitalist, an actor-turned-U.S. president determined to quash America's nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union's “evil ... The results of the 1980 elections encouraged high hopes among Republicans that their party's long period of minority status was at last reaching a close. In this, Reagan imbued an understanding of the limits of federal government intervention in generations of Americans. Reagan the Libertarian? In ... The Act's most significant effect was that it allowed immigrants who had entered the U.S. illegally before Jan. 1, 1982 to apply for legal ... Reagan's economic legacy is mixed. On the one hand, tax reduction and a tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve led to a record period of peacetime ...